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A scream in two reels - The Butcher Boy
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Title: The Butcher Boy

Release Date: 23 Apr 1917

Runtime: 24m

Genre: Comedy

Director: Comique Film Company, Paramount Pictures

Production Companies: Comique Film Company, Paramount Pictures

Overview: Customers and clerks frolic in a general store. Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat, then does some clever cleaver tossing. In Buster's film debut he buys a pail of molasses.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.1 (64 votes)

Cast

  • Fatty / Saccharine: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
  • Buster: Buster Keaton
  • Alum: Al St. John
  • Almondine: Josephine Stevens
  • The Manager: Arthur Earle
  • Accomplice: Joe Bordeaux
  • (uncredited): Charles Dudley
  • Amanda (uncredited): Alice Lake
  • Miss Teachem (uncredited): Agnes Neilson
  • : Luke the Dog
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